Downfall of the economy
Stock Market Crash of 1929
1929-1939
Banks ran out of money
Soup kitchens
FDR helped us out of GD
Inflation
Job loss
Dust Bowl - top soil got ruined so farming declined
Homeless
People moved west
Food stamps
Difficult to move because of cost
Herbert Hoover was president when GD hit, followed by FDR
Industry for World War II got us out of the depression
Crime was high
Suicide rate was high